The entry deadline for the Campaign Photo Awards is drawing close. Judges for this award not only include the photographer Rankin but top agency names from the likes of Fallon, Bartle Bogle Hegarty, Beattie McGuinness Bungay, Saatchi & Saatchi, Wieden + Kennedy, Miles Calcraft Briginshaw Duffy, TBWA and OgilvyOne.

The awards will the presented at a special dinner hosted by Campaign in September, with the work of all finalists and winners shown in a three day gallery exhibition. So if you’ve got a great shot that was taken in response to an advertising brief then this would be some great publicity.

To find out more and to enter visit www.campaignphotoawards.com.

Here at Catch we are looking forward to likes of Rankin using our bespoke online judging system we developed specially for the Haymarket Media Group. Catch designs, manages and hosts 19 awards websites for Haymarket. For the four most prestigious of these (Campaign BIG Awards, Media Week, Campaign Photo and PRWeek) we also provide a bespoke entry platform facilitating registration, entry upload, online judging and payment.

Photo: Sarah Lee via The Guardian

Campaign is the eyes, ears and voice of advertising in the UK, (tasuznhxf8) and has earned huge respect at home and around the world as a champion of creativity, in all its forms, as it is used to make advertising harder hitting, more emotive…evocative, effective.

So you can imagine how excited the budding (albeit it amateur) photographers in the studio were when Campaign asked to use our entry platform to power the inaugural Campaign Photo Awards. Catch already designs, manages and hosts 19 awards websites for Haymarket Media Group. For the four most prestigious of these (Campaign BIG Awards, Media Week, and Campaign Photo and PRWeek) we also provide a bespoke entry platform facilitating registration, entry upload, online judging and payment.

To make life as simple as possible, initial entry is online from March 26, 2009. In this inaugural year, the time limit on use of an image is set at no earlier than November 1, 2007 and no later than April 30, 2009.

So whether you work professionally in Paddington, Sydney or Paddington, London; Athens, Georgia or Athens, Greece your work will be judged by an independent, impartial, experienced team of judges. You can enter here www.campaignphotoawards.com.

We’d like to wish all of you a belated happy new year, and to extend a special warm welcome to Catch’s new clients Lucida PLC, Halbren Homes, and existing client Haymarket’s publication Campaign (the advertising rag, of course).

Kicking off the new year in style, the first phase of various digital marketing pieces will be rolled out immanently.